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Will people mispronounce Isla?

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emme91 wrote:

I absolutely love the name Isla May. It's pronounced eye-la as it's Scottish and you don't say the S. I feel like that name is becoming more popular and people would pronounce it correctly. But my mother thinks everyone will say Is-la. I'm not sure how big a deal this is. I knew how to pronounce it when I saw it. How many of you would pronounce it wrong or feel it's too out there?

unfortunately I truly thought Is-la like island in Spanish. I never heard the other pronunciation before. very pretty name but will cause lots of confusion I'm sure. I always had to explain the pronunciation of my last name, which has a silent "gh" at the end. couldn't imagine having to do it with my first name all the time!

I think it would be mispronounced a lot but others would get it right, but I wouldn't use it just because it's gotten so so popular. Which I guess might help it get pronounced correctly in the long run?

Thanks! I wish I wasn't so in love with it. I think it's because of the star Isla fisher that I've just always pronounced it right. I honestly thought everyone knew that. It was a big wake up call for my mom to ask how to pronounce it. We are going to keep looking and see if we can find something we love more than that. I just love it for some reason haha

I know of a few babies named Isla in my area....we all know pronunciation is eye-la. No troubles there. Even if you do run into complications with it, it won't last. People will only ask one or two times before catching on. My first born, her name is Anika. Its a Dutch name. Figured we'd have a rough go for pronunciation. She will be 2 next week and we barely have to correct people these days. When we did, it was only a short time before people caught on. Some would straight out ask how to pronounce the name. So we worried over nothing. Very seldom do we have to correct people. Our daughters name is pronounced Ah-knee-kah. Like Anita but a "k". Not Ann-ick-ah. Isla is a pretty name, go with it and not worry!

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